On Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:56 pm, Oisin Feeley wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: > > On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:07 PM, Andy Goth wrote: > > > On Friday, June 27, 2003 7:45 am, Malcolm Stevens wrote: > > >> On the same topic of 8+24 overlay, my ibook, when running Apple's X11, > > >> provides 24 bit truecolor visuals and an 8 bit pseudocolor visual. > > >> Does anyone know how this is done? If I remember correctly, the video > > >> chip inside is an ATI Rage Mobility 128 and as far as I can tell ATI > > >> chips don't have hardware overlay features. Does this mean Apple is > > >> doing something in software? Their X11 is based on XFree86 4.2.1 but > > >> I > > >> think it's been modified quite a bit. > > > > > > Forgive me if I'm totally wrong... I haven't had an Apple in my house > > > since > > > the SE/30, so I'm just drawing on minimal observations. > > > > > > Maybe Photon allows different windows to have different color depths. > > > Then a > > > modified XFree86 would have an easier time doing the same. > > > > I don't follow. Is Photon what Apple calls Quartz? I was just curious > > about it anyway. I believe some of the windows X11 emulators/servers > > do pseudocolor stuff in software. The one I remember is from > > hummingbird I think. > > Photon is the name given by QNX to their own windowing system, it's > nothing to do with Apple: http://www.qnx.com/products/ps_photon/
Oops. I guess I had QNX on the brain. Yes, Quartz is what I meant. But you probably shouldn't be listening to be about this subject anyway. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
